CRIMINAL LAW CLINIC Stepping Outside the Classroom and Into the Courtroom
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HEARSAYVOLUME 34 2012 CRIMINAL LAW CLINIC STEPPING OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM AND INTO THE COURTROOM ALANNA SALPETER TESTS HER METTLE IN THE GAMBIA BILL RAND SPEAKS OF “HIS DAY” AT THE LAW SCHOOL MARTHA DEACON TAKES ON THE CHALLENGE OF POVERTY IN THE TOWNSHIPS THE PINKS: A LINEAGE OF LEADING LAWYERS Hearsay 2012 1 Hearsay THE DAlHouSiE lAw Alumni mA gAzinE Volume 34 2012 Dean Kim Brooks, B.A., LL.B., LL.M. Co-Editors Professor John Yogis, LL.B. ‘64 Karen Kavanaugh Copy Editor Judy Kavanagh Writers Jane Doucet donalee Moulton Julie-Ann Sobowale Grapevine Editor Tammi Hayne The editors welcome contributions, information, and ideas from alumni. Please direct your submissions to: Editor Hearsay Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University Weldon Law Building 6061 University Avenue PO Box 15000 Halifax, NS Canada B3H 4R2 E-mail: [email protected] tel: 902-494-3744 fax: 902-494-1316 Mailed under Canada Post publications agreement 41890527 VOLUME 34 2012 conContentsTEnts FEATURES: DEPARTMENTS: 6 CRIMINAL CoursE IN CRIMINAL Law 36 STUDENT NOTES Where the real world meets the law school Alumnus establishes a new international internship Scholarship established for students with disabilities Student Moots Discretionary Award Winners 39 facULTY NEWS A fond farewell to a much loved professor Professors receive emeritus status Outstanding educators are recognized 12 THE TownshIps ProjECT for excellence in teaching Martha Deacon takes the challenges of poverty to heart Faculty in Print 16 SAILING AdvEnturES Faculty Profiles Wilson Fitt and Thelma Costello’s transatlantic voyages 19 LayING THE FoundatION Alanna Salpeter teaches law in The Gambia 21 SEMINAR FOR Rwanda JudICIARY Justice Allan Boudreau shares his experience 22 THE PINK FamIly Irving Pink begins a legacy of Dalhousie grads 26 In MY Day Q & A with Bill Rand 48 REPORT ON GIVING 63 GRAPEVINE 29 ConnECTING THE Dots Rod Germaine tells of his cross-country journey 71 IN MEMORIAM 32 WELDON Award WInnErs Ed Dunsworth and David Wallace are recognized for their unselfish public service 34 REunION 2011 A photo essay Hearsay 2012 3 FROM THE EDITOR DALHOUSIE Law ALUMNI ASSOCIATION I saw this as raising some possible wills issues. I Board of Directors National President would also have mentioned something about the Robert M. Purdy, LL.B.‘76 notorious fashion entrepreneur Lucy, Lady Duff- Vice President Gordon, who was the dramatis persona in the Judge Michael Sherar, LL.B.‘77 case of Wood v. Duff-Gordon, which anyone who Past President Jeanne Desveaux, LL.B.‘01 used the Read and Foote Contracts casebook Secretary-Treasurer should be familiar with. Finally, I made a note Associate Dean Michael Deturbide, to follow up on a telephone conversation with LL.B.’89 John Langley (‘71). John explained that he was Honorary President Brian Flemming, CM, QC, LL.B.‘62 a guest lecturer on the Azamara, a cruise-ship Ex-Officio chartered to sail to the exact spot on the North Dean Kim Brooks Atlantic where the tragic sinking took pace for a Director of Alumni & Development commemorative memorial service on the night Karen Kavanaugh of April 14-15. John, the author of Steam Lion: Members at Large A Biography of Samuel Cunard, said that his Julia Cornish, LL.B.‘83 lectures would relate to Halifax’s connection to Brian Curry, LL.B.‘99 the Titanic. Michael F. Donovan, LL.B.‘78 Sad to say, neither the Titanic nor the Anne Emery, LL.B.’78 other mentioned anniversaries made it to this Donna Franey, LL.B.’86 issue. However, Hearsay does relate the sailing Anna Fried, LL.B.‘80 Professor John Yogis and Maggie adventures of Wilson Fitt (’79) and Thelma Mary Hamblin, LL.B.’99 Costello (’81). While there may not be an iceberg Ronald A. Meagher, LL.B.‘83 And then there are the ones that got in Wilson’s account of sailing solo on the North Naiomi S. Metallic, LL.B.‘05 away. I sometimes ponder about the stories Atlantic, most landlubbers should find it exciting Michael Power, LL.B.‘75 that didn’t get told. Initially, my preparatory notes enough. I also became immersed in writing an Alison Scott, LL.B.‘80 for the present issue seized upon the theme of account of the work of Martha Deacon (’77) and the three anniversaries: the 100 year anniversary her initiative in founding “The Townships Project” Branch Presidents of the sinking of the Titanic; Queen Elizabeth in South Africa. This, and Rod Germaine’s (’71) Alberta Brian Beck. LL.B.‘93 II’s 60th anniversary as Canada’s monarch; and story about his cross-Canada trek by bike in aid [email protected] the 30th anniversary of the Canadian Charter of displaced Burmese refugees, and Alanna British Columbia of Rights and Freedoms. In exploring possible Salpeter’s (‘09) account of working as a lecturer Tammy Donovan, LL.B.‘07 [email protected] Dalhousie connections with the Titanic disaster at the University of Gambia’s Faculty of Law, Cape Breton my rough notes contain segments of a telephone demonstrate the efforts of our graduates to Robert Sampson, LL.B.‘81 interview I had with Garry Shutlak, senior commit to the Weldon Tradition of public service. [email protected] reference archivist at the Nova Scotia Archives. Finally, I would like to report that our good Manitoba Elissa Neville, LL.B.‘98 Mr. Shutlak informed me that Hilda Slaytor, friend, and former colleague, Edgar Gold (’72), [email protected] returning home with her wedding trousseau, and his wife, Judith, have survived a 109-day Newfoundland was the sole Halifax survivor of the disaster. She world cruise. Edgar and Judith will be in Halifax Robert J. Hickey, LL.B.‘91 [email protected] had been an Arts student at Dalhousie, circa in the latter part of June when Edgar will be Northwest Territories/Yukon 1901-02. Moreover, her family had many other presented with a Festschrift (a book or collection Ramona Sladic, LL.B.‘07 Dalhousie connections including a brother, James of learned articles or essays as a tribute to [email protected] Morrow Slaytor, who graduated in law in 1899. an esteemed scholar) put together by a large Prince Edward Island Ronald MacLeod, LL.B.‘91 A Haligonian who did not survive the sinking international group of friends and colleagues. The [email protected] was George Wright, a Halifax philanthropist. event will coincide with a major international law Quebec Before embarking on the fateful voyage he made of the sea conference organized by the Schulich Edward B. Claxton, LL.B.‘83 [email protected] changes to his will in London including a bequest School of Law and the Dalhousie Marine and Saskatchewan of his fashionable south-end Halifax residence Environmental Law Institute. Jade Buchanan, LL.B.‘11 to the “local council of women” to carry out their Hearsay’s co-editor, Karen Kavanaugh, and I [email protected] work in suppressing such evils as had concerned wish you all a very enjoyable summer. Southern Ontario Chris Hale, LL.B.‘87 Wright, and about which he had written. His will [email protected] also left $2500.00 to the Dalhousie building Southeastern Ontario fund. Apparently, there was only a copy of the Thom Kelley, LL.B.‘96 [email protected] records relating to the updating of his will as the originals were destroyed in German bombings. John 4 Hearsay 2012 MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN Renewal and Return. If I had to choose some words The School continues to be a place for the public exchange of ideas. to describe the past year, renewal and return serve us well. We have Professor Brian Langille returned home to give our annual Innis Christie extraordinary roots, worth returning to. We led the development of legal lecture on November 4 and he taught the Innis Christie Short Course on education in Canada. Our graduates and faculty members have, since our Labour Relations. The W.F.B. Wickwire Memorial Lecture in Professional inception, been sought throughout the country and around the world for Responsibility and Legal Ethics, co-hosted with the Nova Scotia Barristers’ their talents. This seems a moment to renovate and innovate. Society, was larger than ever. “Access to Justice: Reality, Rhetoric and We are recruiting four new faculty members (although we will say Recommitment” featured panelists Hon. Mr. Justice Cromwell, Professor goodbye to one); we are redesigning our legal research, writing, and oral Trevor Farrow, and Ms. Emma Halpern. Our mini law series continues to advocacy program (very much in the spirit of G.V.V. Nicholls); and we have bring members of the public to the School to discuss topical issues in law. established a curriculum committee to look at our program as a whole. Corporate Knights magazine’s 2011 Knight Schools Survey ranked Exciting times. our School third in the country (behind the University of Toronto and very In October, we announced the establishment of the MacBain Chair closely behind Osgoode Hall Law School at York University). Additionally, in Health Law & Policy, the result of a $3-million dollar gift made by Dr. our School was singled out in the student-led initiatives category as an John McCall MacBain in honour of his father, Arthur Allister MacBain example of best practices from top-performing schools in the Knight (’51). Dalhousie now has the largest active health law and policy faculty Schools Survey for law degree programs. in Canada, and the Schulich School of Law is the first law school in the Our students never fail to impress and inspire, and I could write a country to offer health law as a specialization at the undergraduate (JD) very long list of their achievements this year.